Trivia Thread

[Ann M]

What Old Testament figure has a feast day today, May 10?

In the land of Hus, the holy ......

 

[Paul S]

Information found about St Basil reads "Feast day in the West: formerly 14 June (his day of consecration), but since 1969 on 2 January with St. Gregory Nazianzen."

ETWN says " The Latins honour him on the 8th of May."

Your Roman Breviary has him on May 9th.

Just call me confused.... again!

My 1962 Missal has his feast on May 9, so that would be correct.

Although January 2 is also correct, since in the calendar for the new Mass, he got moved.

 

[Paul S]

In the land of Hus, the holy ......

I don't remember in the Old Testament anywhere.

 

[Ann M]

Job!!!

 

[Paul S]

Job!!!

I knew that.

 

[Paul S]

Name this saint, her order, and her feast day:

She was born in Italy, founded a new order of sisters, established schools, hospitals, and other institutions all across America, and died in Chicago.

Also, in what city is her body now?

 

[Ann M]

Frances Xavier Cabrini V (AC)
Born at Sant'Angelo Lodigiano (diocese of Lodi), Lombardy, Italy, on July 15, 1850; died in Chicago, Illinois, on December 22, 1917; beatified in 1938; canonized on July 7, 1946; feast day was December 22.
The life of Saint Frances is another remarkable story that teaches us the value of persistence in hope. I've seen a photograph of her--she was absolutely gorgeous with her dark hair, broad mouth, and shining, deep eyes. She was said to be small of stature and big of spirit. Naturalized in 1909, she is the first U.S. citizen to be canonized, but Francesca Maria was the Italian born 13th child of Augustine Cabrini, a farmer, and his Milanese wife Stella Oldini.

On the day she was born, a flock of white doves flew down to the farm where her father was threshing grain.

Several times in her later life flocks of white birds appeared. Francesca loved them and compared them to angels or souls she would help save, or to new sisters coming to join her community.

Her parents baptized her Maria Francesca Saverio after the missionary saint Francis Xavier. Wittingly or not, it seems that her destiny was mapped out early. Because her mother's health was delicate, Francesca was taught mainly by her elder sister Rosa, a school teacher, and was encouraged by her uncle, Father Oldini, to become a foreign missionary. He knew her secret childhood game of filling paper boats with violets and setting them loose in the river as she pretended that the violets were missionaries going to convert people in far-off lands. Her parents wanted her to be a teacher, however, and sent her to a convent boarding school at Arluno.

As a child she learned to pray well by the example of her family. Her mother rose early to pray for an hour before going to Mass, and at the end of the day she prayed for another hour. Francesca would frequently steal away from her schoolmates to pray by herself in some quiet spot.

In 1863, at the age of 13, Francesca entered the convent of the Sacred Heart at Arluna, where she made a vow of virginity. When she graduated with honors at age 18, she was fully qualified as a teacher. At 20 she was orphaned, and felt called to be a nun. Like several saints before her, however, no one seemed to want her because her health was so poor that no one thought she would live very long, and rather discounted her as far as being of much use to her order.

By the time Francesca was 21, she had suffered much: in addition to the loss of her parents, 10 of her siblings died. From 1868 to 1872, she worked hard nursing the sick poor in her hometown, including a woman who died of cancer. She also had to deal with her own illness (smallpox) in 1871. These hardships combined to teach her that everyone in this world has a cross to carry.

After her recovery (1872) she began to teach in the public school of Vidardo. In 1874 after being turned down by the Sacred Heart nuns who taught her and another congregation, Don Serrati, the priest in whose school she was teaching, invited Francesca to help manage a small orphanage at Codogno in the diocese of Lodi. The House of Providence had been mismanaged by its foundress the eccentric Antonia Tondini.

Msgr. Serrati and the bishop of Todi, recognizing her intense love of God and bold holiness, and her deep love for the poor, invited her to turn the institution into a religious community. Reluctantly, she agreed. From Antonia, Francesca received only trouble and abuse, but she persisted. With seven recruits, she took her first vows in 1877. The bishop made her superioress.

Antonia's behavior became worse--she was thought to have become unbalanced--but Francesca persevered for another three years. Then the bishop himself gave up hope and closed the institution. That was according to Francesca's desires--more than anything else, she wanted to be a missionary to China. Thus, in 1880, the bishop counselled her to found a congregation of missionary sisters, since that was what she wanted to be and he didn't know of any such order. Francesca moved to an abandoned Franciscan friary at Codogno, and drew up a rule for the community. Its main object was to be the Christian education of girls in Catholic schismatic or pagan countries under the title of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

Francesca and her sisters placed their complete trust in God. When there was no money to provide food, money miraculously appeared. When there was no milk for the orphans, a formerly empty container brimmed with milk. When a nun was again sent to an empty breadbox, the box was again full. God can never be outdone in his generosity. He promised that He would provide for our needs and He does for those who trust Him.

The same year the rule was approved, a daughter house was opened at Grumello. The sisters of the Sacred Heart soon spread to Milan. Francesca was a demanding mistress. She got up very early, an hour before the sisters who also got up early. Four hours daily were spent in prayer by each sister regardless of what else needed to be done.

In 1887, Francesca went to Rome to gain approbation of her congregation and permission to open a house in Rome. After an initially unsuccessful interview with the cardinal vicar--the congregation was deemed too young for approval--Francesca won him over. She asked to open two houses in Rome, a free school and a children's home, and the first decree of approval of the Missionary Sisters was issued in 1888.

Bishop Scalabrini of Piacenza, who had established the Society of Saint Charles to work among Italian immigrants in America, suggested that Francesca travel there to help these priests. Francesca longed to evangelize China, but realized that Italian immigrants in the U.S.--50,000 in New York alone--needed all the help that her order could give them. Archbishop Corrigan of New York sent her a formal invitation, so she decided to consult with the pope. In 1889, Pope Leo XIII gave his blessing to the enterprise. Despite her fear of water caused by a childhood accident, she set off across the Atlantic, landing in New York in 1889 (age 39) with six of her sisters.

Things did not get off to a good start, even with the archbishop's patronage and warm welcome. Apparently, the orphanage she was to have managed was abandoned because of a dispute with the benefactress. There was much to be done: A whole nation of orphans and elderly to be comforted--a daunting task with no money and no hope of any in sight. The archbishop suggested that she return home. Francesca replied that the pope had sent her to America and so she must stay. Within a few weeks Francesca had mended the rift, found a house for the sisters, and started the orphanage.

As with every difficulty she encountered throughout her life, with each new trial she would ask, "Who is doing this? We?--or Our Lord?" Even so, she encouraged her sisters to use efficiency and business acumen in the cause of charity, which won the respect of the most hard-headed and hard-hearted Americans.

Later that year she revisited Italy, as she would almost every year to bring back new missionaries. This trip she took with her the first two Italo-American recruits to the congregation. Nine months later she returned, bringing reinforcements to take over West Park, on the Hudson, from the Society of Jesus. The orphanage was transferred to this house, which became the motherhouse and novitiate of the order in the U.S.

In addition to the 24 times she crossed the Atlantic, Francesca travelled throughout the Americas for 28 years--from coast to coast in the U.S. by train and on muleback across the Andes. First she went to Managua, Nicaragua, where under sometimes dangerous circumstances she took over an orphanage and opened a boarding house. On her way back, she visited New Orleans, and there made another new foundation.

Francesca was slow in learning English, but she had great business acumen. She was sometimes overly strict and self-righteous-- rejecting illegitimate children from her fee-paying schools, for example--and she was slow to recognize that non-Catholics could truly mean well.

In 1892 one of Francesca's greatest undertakings--Columbus Hospital--was opened in New York. After another visit to Italy, she travelled to Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, and Brazil. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, she opened a school for girls.

In 1900 Francesca visited Pope Leo XIII again. He was then 90 years old. One day he said to her, "Let us work, Cabrini, let us work, and what a heaven will be ours!" Then after he had passed, he turned around and looked at her again. "Let us work, Cabrini!" he said, his kind old face all wreathed in smiles.

After her next trip to Italy, she travelled to France, opening her first European houses outside Italy. By 1907, when the order was finally approved, there were over 1,000 members in eight countries (including Britain, Spain, and Latin America), founded more than fifty houses, and numerous free schools, high schools, fifty hospitals (including four of the greats), and other institutions. At the time of her death, the congregation had grown to 67 houses with over 4,000 sisters.

This sickly woman's health finally began to fail in 1911, but she kept going even through the war. On December 21, 1917, fearing that the children in one of her schools might miss their usual treat of candy for Christmas, Francesca began to make up little parcels with her own hands. "Let's hurry," she said to her sisters, "the time is short, and I want to be sure that the children will have their treat." The time was indeed short for she died of malaria the very next day in the Chicago convent.

At first her relics were placed at West Park, Illinois. Her body now rests in the chapel of the Mother Cabrini High School in New York City, where you can see it in a state of marvellous preservation in its glass casket. The work begun for Italian immigrants was carried on for all without distinction (including convicts in Sing-Sing prison) (Attwater, Bentley, Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Girzone, Melady, Schamoni, Stanbrook, White).

Because she was open to God, He used her to fulfill His purpose. We never know how God is going to use us; therefore, we have to wait expectantly, openly to see what He has planned. We can be sure that He won't disappoint us. God has a way of turning each attentive life into an adventure that brings joy and satisfaction and peace to His servant and those around him.

In 1946, Pope Pius XII named her patroness of all emigrants and immigrants.



Apparently her feast day is now November 13

 

[Paul S]

Okaaaay... you found that one way too quickly. I'm going to have come up with a much harder question next time.

And her feast day has been moved to the 13th, to get it out of Advent and Sapientiatide. But I've also seen it on November 18th.

Her traditional feast day is December 22, the day after St. Thomas Apostle.

 

[Paul S]

Here you go. This should take a while.

If the Golden number is 13, the Epact is xi, and the Dominical Letter is d, when is Septuagesima Sunday?

 

[ladybug01]

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 23, 2005
3rd Sunday after Epiphany

 

[Paul S]

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 23, 2005
3rd Sunday after Epiphany

January 23 was indeed Septuagesima Sunday this year. But I didn't ask about this year.

 

[Ann M]

Here you go. This should take a while.

If the Golden number is 13, the Epact is xi, and the Dominical Letter is d, when is Septuagesima Sunday?

Gregorian calendar
This method for the computation of the date of Easter was introduced with the Quick Facts about: Gregorian calendar
The solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it wGregorian calendar reform in 1582.

First determine the Quick Facts about: epact
Quick Summary not found for this subjectepact for the year. The epact can have a value from "*" (=0 or 30) to 29 days. The first day of a lunar month is considered the day of the Quick Facts about: New Moon
The time at which the moon appears as a narrow waxing crescentNew Moon. The 14th day is considered the day of the Quick Facts about: Full Moon
The time when the moon is fully illuminatedFull Moon.

The epacts for the current (anno 2003) Metonic cycle are:





Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Golden Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Quick Facts about: Epact
Quick Summary not found for this subjectEpact 29 10 21 2 13 24 5 16 27 8 19 * 11 22 3 14 25 6 17
Paschal Full Moon 15M 3A 23M 11A 31M 18A 8A 28M 16A 5A 25M 13A 2A 22M 10A 30M 17A 7A 27M

(M=March, A=April)

This table can be extended for previous and following 19-year periods, and is valid from 1900 to 2199.

The epacts are used to find the dates of New Moon in the following way.
Write down a table of all 365 days of the year (the leap day is ignored). Then label all dates with a Roman number counting downwards, from "*" (= 0, or 30), "xxix" (29), down to "i" (1), starting from 1 January, and repeat this to the end of the year. However, in every second such period count only 29 days and label the date with xxv (25) also with xxiv (24). Treat the 13th period (last eleven days) as long though, and assign the labels "xxv" and "xxiv" to sequential dates (26 and 27 December respectively). Finally, in addition add the label "25" to the dates that have "xxv" in the 30-day periods; but in 29-day periods (which have "xxiv" together with "xxv") add the label "25" to the date with "xxvi". The distribution of the lengths of the months and the length of the epact cycles is such that each month starts and ends with the same epact label, except for February and for the epact labels xxv and 25 in July and August. This table is called the calendarium. If the epact for the year is for instance 27, then there is an ecclesiastic New Moon on every date in that year that has the epact label xxvii (27).

Also label all the dates in the table with letters "A" to "G", starting from 1 January, and repeat to the end of the year. If for instance the first Sunday of the year is on 5 January, which has letter E, then every date with the letter "E" will be a Sunday that year. Then "E" is called the Quick Facts about: Dominical letter
Quick Summary not found for this subjectDominical letter for that year (from Latin: dies domini, day of the Lord). The Dominical Letter cycles backward one position every year. However, in leap years after 24 February the Sundays will fall on the previous letter of the cycle, so leap years have 2 Dominical Letters: the first for before, the second for after the leap day.

In practice for the purpose of calculating Easter, this need not be done for all 365 days of the year. For the epacts, you will find that March comes out exactly the same as January, so one need not calculate January or February. To also avoid the need to calculate the Dominical Letters for January and February, start with D for 1 March. You need the epacts only from 8 March to 5 April.
This gives rise to the following table:

Label March DL April DL | Label March DL April DL
* 1 D | xv 16 E 14 F
xxix 2 E 1 G | xiv 17 F 15 G
xxviii 3 F 2 A | xiii 18 G 16 A
xxvii 4 G 3 B | xii 19 A 17 B
xxvi 5 A 4 C | xi 20 B 18 C
25 6 B 4 C | x 21 C 19 D
xxv 6 B 5 D | ix 22 D 20 E
xxiv 7 C 5 D | viii 23 E 21 F
xxiii 8 D 6 E | vii 24 F 22 G
xxii 9 E 7 F | vi 25 G 23 A
xxi 10 F 8 G | v 26 A 24 B
xx 11 G 9 A | iv 27 B 25 C
xix 12 A 10 B | iii 28 C
xviii 13 B 11 C | ii 29 D
xvii 14 C 12 D | i 30 E
xvi 15 D 13 E | * 31 F

Example: if the epact is for instance 27 (Roman: xxvii), then there will be an ecclesiastic New Moon on every date that has the label "xxvii". The ecclesiastic Full Moon falls 13 days later. From the above table this gives a New Moon on 4 March and 3 April and so a Full Moon on 17 March and 16 April.

Then Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastic Full Moon on or after 21 March.

In the example, this Paschal Full Moon is on 16 April. If the Dominical Letter is E, then Easter Sunday is on 20 April.

The label 25 (as distinct from "xxv") is used as follows. Within a Metonic cycle, years that are 11 years apart have epacts that differ by 1 day. Now short months have the labels xxiv and xxv at the same date, so if the epacts 24 and 25 both occur within one Metonic cycle, then the New (and Full) Moons would fall on the same dates for these two years. This is not actually possible for the real Moon: the dates should repeat only after 19 years. To avoid this, in years with a Golden Number larger than 11, the reckoned New Moon will fall on the date with the label "25" rather than "xxv"; in long months these are the same, in short ones this is the date which also has the label "xxvi". This does not move the problem to the pair "25" and "xxvi" because that would happen only in year 22 of the cycle, which lasts only 19 years: there is a saltus lunae in between that makes the New Moons fall on separate dates.

The Gregorian calendar has a correction to the solar year by dropping 3 leap days in 400 years (always in a century year). This is a correction to the length of the solar year, but should have no effect on the Metonic relation between years and lunations. Therefore the epact is compensated for this (partially - see Quick Facts about: epact
Quick Summary not found for this subjectepact) by subtracting 1 in these century years. This is the so-called solar equation.

However, 19 uncorrected Julian years are a little longer than 235 lunations. The difference accumulates to 1 day in about 310 years. Therefore in the Gregorian calendar, the epact gets corrected by adding 1 eight times in 2500 (Gregorian) years, always in a century year: this is the so-called lunar equation. The first one was applied in 1800, and it will be applied every 300 years, except for an interval of 400 years between 3900 and 4300 which starts a new cycle.

The effect is that the Gregorian lunar calendar uses an epact table that is valid for a period of from 100 to 300 years. The epact table listed above is valid in the period 1900 to 2199.

Details
This method of computation has several subtleties:

Every second lunar month has only 29 days, so one day must have two (of the 30) epact labels assigned to it. The reason for moving around the epact label "xxv/25" rather than any other seems to be the following. According to Dionysius (in his introductory letter to Petronius), the Nicene council on authority of Eusebius established that the first month of the ecclesiastic lunar year (the paschal month) should start from 8 March up to 5 April, and the 14th days fall from 21 March up to 18 April, so spanning a period of (only) 29 days. A New Moon on 7 March, which has epact label xxiv, has its 14th day (Full Moon) on 20 March, which is too early (before the equinox date). So years with an epact of xxiv would have their Paschal New Moon on 6 April, which is too late: the Full Moon would fall on 19 April, and Easter could be as late as 26 April. In the Julian calendar the latest date of Easter was 25 April, and the Gregorian reform maintained that limit. So the Paschal Full Moon must fall no later than 18 April, and the New Moon on 5 April, which has epact label xxv. So the short month must have its double epact labels on 5 April: xxiv and xxv. Then epact xxv has to be treated differently, as explained in the paragraph above.

As a consequence, 19 April is the date on which Easter falls most frequently in the Gregorian calendar: in about 3.87% of the years. 22 March is the least frequent, with 0.48%.

The relation between lunar and solar calendar dates is made independent of the leap day scheme for the solar year. Basically the Gregorian calendar still uses the Julian calendar with a leap day every 4 years, so a Metonic cycle of 19 years has 6940 or 6939 days with 5 or 4 leap days. Now the lunar cycle counts only 19 × 354 + 19 × 11 = 6935 days. By NOT labeling and counting the leap day with an epact number, but have the next New Moon fall on the same calendar date as without the leap day, the current lunation gets extended by a day, and the 235 lunations cover as many days as the 19 years. So the burden of synchronizing the calendar with the Moon (intermediate term accuracy) is shifted to the solar calendar, which may use any suitable intercalation scheme; all under the assumption that 19 solar years = 235 lunations (long term inaccuracy). A consequence is that the reckoned age of the Moon may be off by a day, and also that the lunations which contain the leap day may be 31 days long, which would never happen when the real Moon were followed (short term inaccuracies). This is the price for a regular fit to the solar calendar.

However, there is some protection of the lunar calendar against the errors of the solar calendar. The leap days are not inserted in an optimal way to keep the calendar synchronized to the solar year. The corrections to the leap day scheme are limited to century years, and add 2 nested intercalation cycles (100 and 400 years) around the 4-year cycle. Each cycle accumulates an error, and they add up to more than 2 days. So in the Gregorian calendar, the actual dates of the Quick Facts about: vernal equinox
March 21vernal equinox are scattered over a time window of about 53 hours around 20 March. This may be acceptable for a calendar period of a year, but is too much for a monthly period. By separating the "solar" from the "lunar equation", this jitter is not carried to the lunar calendar.

Besides the jitter in the solar calendar, there are also some flaws in the Gregorian lunar calendar. However, they do have no effect on the Paschal month and the date of Easter:
1. Lunations of 31 (and sometimes 28) days occur.
2. If a year with Golden Number 19 happens to have epact 19, then the last ecclesiastic New Moon falls on 2 December; the next would be due on 1 January. However at the start of the new year there is a saltus lunae which increases the epact by another unit, and the New Moon should have occurred on the previous day. So a New Moon is missed. The calendarium of the Missale Romanum takes account of this by assigning epact label "19" instead of "20" to 31 December of such a year. It happened every 19 years when the original Gregorian epact table was in effect, for the last time in AD 1690, and will not happen again until AD 8511.
3. If the epact of a year is "20", then there will be an ecclesiastic New Moon on 31 December. If that year falls before a century year, then in most cases there will be a "solar equation" correction which reduces the epact for the new year by 1: the resulting epact "*" means that another ecclesiastic New Moon is counted on 1 January; so formally a lunation of 1 day has passed. This will happen around the beginning of AD 4200.
4. Other borderline cases occur (much) later, and if the rules are followed strictly and these cases are not specially treated, they will generate successive New Moon dates that are 1, 28, 59, or (very rarely) 58 days apart.

A careful analysis shows that through the way they are used and corrected in the Gregorian calendar, the epacts are actually fractions of a lunation (1/30, also known as Quick Facts about: tithi
Quick Summary not found for this subjecttithi) and not full days. See Quick Facts about: epact
Quick Summary not found for this subjectepact for a discussion.

The solar and lunar equations repeat after 4 × 25 = 100 centuries. In that period, the epact has changed by a total of -1 × (3/4) × 100 + 1 × (8/25) × 100 = -43 = 17 mod 30. This is prime to the 30 possible epacts, so it takes 100 × 30 = 3000 centuries before the epacts repeat; and 3000 × 19 = 57 000 centuries before the epacts repeat at the same Golden Number. This period has (5 700 000/19) × 235 + (-43/30) × (57 000/100) = 70 499 183 lunations. So the Gregorian Easter dates repeat in exactly the same order only after 5 700 000 years = 70 499 183 lunations = 2 081 882 250 days. However the calendar will have to be adjusted already after some millennia because of changes in the length of the vernal equinox year, the synodic month, and the day.


Just ring me at the funny farm........

 

[ladybug01]

whoa.. what did you just say?
*is confused*

 

[Paul S]

All quite true, Ann.

So when's Septuagesima?

I told you this one would take a while - that way I don't have to think up new questions so often.

But I'll be nice and give you a hint. There's tables out there that list the appropriate dates for Easter. I happen to have one in my Breviary and another in my Missal.

They're also available online. Somewhere. Maybe.

 

[D'Ann]

Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday) is the name formerly given to the third from the last Sunday before Lent in the Roman Catholic and also sometimes applied to the period of the liturgical year which began on this day and lasted through Shrove Tuesday (with the following day being Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins). This period was also known as

 

[Ann M]

All quite true, Ann.

So when's Septuagesima?

I told you this one would take a while - that way I don't have to think up new questions so often.

But I'll be nice and give you a hint. There's tables out there that list the appropriate dates for Easter. I happen to have one in my Breviary and another in my Missal.

They're also available online. Somewhere. Maybe.

February 4?

 

[Paul S]

February 4?

Nope. That's not a Sunday.

 

[Ann M]

My mistake. I was looking at 2007, but that is a G year.

I believe I neede to look at 1807, in which case the answer is January 25

 

[Ann M]

EASTER TABLE FOLLOWING THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR REFORM
Adapted from Missale Romanum, "The Year and its Parts"

Sunday Cycle of Septua- Easter Sundays First
Letter the Epact gesima Sunday after Advent
(DL) Pentecost Sunday
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D xxiii 18 Jan 22 Mar 28 29 Nov
D xvi-xxii 25 Jan 29 Mar 27 29 Nov
D ix-xv 1 Feb 5 Apr 26 29 Nov
D ii-viii 8 Feb 12 Apr 25 29 Nov
D *,i,xxiv-xxix,25 15 Feb 19 Apr 24 29 Nov
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E xxii-xxiii 19 Jan 23 Mar 28 30 Nov
E xv-xxi 26 Jan 30 Mar 27 30 Nov
E viii-xiv 2 Feb 6 Apr 26 30 Nov
E i-vii 9 Feb 13 Apr 25 30 Nov
E xxiv-xxix,*,25 16 Feb 20 Apr 24 30 Nov
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F xxi-xxiii 20 Jan 24 Mar 28 1 Dec
F xiv-xx 27 Jan 31 Mar 27 1 Dec
F vii-xiii 3 Feb 7 Apr 26 1 Dec
F *,i-vi 10 Feb 14 Apr 25 1 Dec
F xxiv-xxix,25 17 Feb 21 Apr 24 1 Dec
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G xx-xxiii 21 Jan 25 Mar 28 2 Dec
G xiii-xix 28 Jan 1 Apr 27 2 Dec
G vi-xii 4 Feb 8 Apr 26 2 Dec
G xxix,*,i-v 11 Feb 15 Apr 25 2 Dec
G xiv-xviii,25 18 Feb 22 Apr 24 2 Dec
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Sunday Cycle of Septua- Easter Sundays First
Letter the Epact gesima Sunday after Advent
(DL) Pentecost Sunday
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A xix-xxiii 22 Jan 26 Mar 28 3 Dec
A xii-xviii 29 Jan 2 Apr 27 3 Dec
A v-xi 5 Feb 9 Apr 26 3 Dec
A xxviii,xxix,*,i-iv 12 Feb 16 Apr 25 3 Dec
A xxiv-xxvii,25 19 Feb 23 Apr 24 3 Dec
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B xviii-xxiii 23 Jan 27 Mar 27 27 Nov
B xi-xvii 30 Jan 3 Apr 26 27 Nov
B iv-x 6 Feb 10 Apr 25 27 Nov
B xxvii-xxix,*,i-iii 13 Feb 17 Apr 24 27 Nov
B xxiv-xxvi,25 20 Feb 24 Apr 23 27 Nov
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C xvii-xxiii 24 Jan 28 Mar 27 28 Nov
C x-xvi 31 Jan 4 Apr 26 28 Nov
C iii-ix 7 Feb 11 Apr 25 28 Nov
C 25,xxvi-xxix,*,i,ii 14 Feb 18 Apr 24 28 Nov
C xxiv,xxv 21 Feb 25 Apr 23 28 Nov
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Sunday Cycle of Septua- Easter Sundays First
Letter the Epact gesima Sunday after Advent
(DL) Pentecost Sunday

 

[Paul S]

My mistake. I was looking at 2007, but that is a G year.

I believe I neede to look at 1807, in which case the answer is January 25

In 1807, the dominical Letter was d, the Golden number was 3, and the Epact xxii. Easter was thus March 29, 1807, and Septuagesima January 25.

The table of Epacts changed in 1900, because 1900 was not a leap year. The current table is good until 2100.

But changing the table doesn't affect the dates for a particular combination of Golden number, Epact, and dominical Letter.

But I didn't ask about Golden number 3, Epact xxii, and dominical Letter d. Check the question again.